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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,

No. S. 216. Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st August, 1917, as certi- fied by the Managers of the respective Banks: ---

BANKS.

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,

TOTAL,

AVERAGE AMOUNT.

SPECIE IN RESERVE.

$

S

6,913,115

5,000,000*

22,523,774 18,000,000

1,154,154

550,000†

30,591,043

23,550,000

Sterling Securities deposited with the Crown Agents valued at £150,000.

† Securities with the Crown Agents £100,000.

No. S. 217. The following statement of the securities lodged with the Crown Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes in circulation, is published for general information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911) :--

Amount,

Nominal Value.

Price when deposited.

Latest market price.

Security.

5% War Loan,

£100,000

No. S. 218. Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place or Port.

Dairen.

Nature of Measures.

Date.

Reference to Govern- ment Noti- fication.

Quarantine restrictions against all ships arriving at Dairen or Port Arthur from or by way of Canton and all other South-China ports.

31st August, 1916. No. S. 194.

7th September, 1917.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.